With all this talk about gas prices being kept artificially high, I thought I'd work out what it actually costs me per day just for hot water. We have a conventional gravity fed system with a quite large 20 year old boiler pumping out max 100,000 btu/hour which is 'serviced' each year by British Gas. Couldn't be too much I thought as we only have it on for an hour in the morning and an hour at night for baths and showers and there are only 3 of us living here. Direct Debits make you lazy and so I had a shock.
If you look at your gas bill it's mighty complicated. There's standing charges and then all sorts of conversion factors, correction factors and calorific values to apply to throw you off. But actually, I found it boils down to about £1.12 per unit (3.19p per KWh for me anyway).
Ignoring the standing charge it comes out at an average of £2.25 per day for the last 5 months. That's nearly £70 per month just for hot water! I shudder to think what's going to happen when the heating kicks in all day.
Is this in line with what you lot pay? I'd like to think I need my meter checking! Or else I'm going to get some more wooly jumpers for the family and get them to wrap up.
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Topic: How much has domestic gas cost you this Summer? (Read 843 times)